Submitted by: Bart Green, MSEd, DC, DACBSP
Position: Chiropractic Health Care section Awards Chair
The APHA Chiropractic Health Care Section is proud to announce the recipients of the 2011 Section awards. Following peer nominations, the recipients were determined by the Awards Committee. We thank these Section members for their efforts on behalf of the section and the association! The recipients are as follows:
John Pammer, DC, DACBR – Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Pammer has been a member of the APHA since before the CHC was an official section. He began chiropractic practice in 1960. In his more than 50 years of service to the profession, he has served as the chair of the CHC Section and as president of the American Chiropractic Association. He has further served the CHC Section in participation at the annual meetings, volunteering to represent the section at the APHA Expo, and has served as an advisor for the Section in its activities with the American Chiropractic Association. Pammer has previously been awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the CHC Section in 2005.
Michael T. Haneline, DC, MPH – Distinguished Service Award
Dr. Haneline is a multi-year member of the CHC Section and has served a term as Section secretary during which he performed exemplarily. He is the principal editor of a major new textbook, Introduction to Public Health for Chiropractors, that has filled a gap in the literature of public health, chiropractic involvement in mainstream public health activities, and student resources in this topic. He has published several articles on public health and chiropractic. He recently started the chiropractic degree program at the International Medical University of Malaysia, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, where he now serves as head of the Chiropractic Department.
Jason Ross Bartlett, DC – Rising Star Award
Dr. Bartlett has been a CHC Section member for the past five years. Dr. Bartlett has shown great dedication to attending the APHA conferences and being supportive of the CHC Section's efforts by freely offering to assist when help was needed. He is currently serving as CHC Section Councilor and has represented the APHA-CHC at the Association of Chiropractic Colleges-Research Agenda Conference by being a co-presenter of a public health focused workshop titled “Back and Spinal Pain: a Public Health Priority.” He has contributed an article to the CHC Section supported public health column of Dynamic Chiropractic and is typically the first to sign up to represent the CHC Section at the Section booth at the APHA Expo.
Mark T. Zeigler, DC - Special Award for Advancing Public Health & Chiropractic
Dr. Zeigler has demonstrated leadership in encouraging chiropractic students to participate in areas of concern to public health by joining a small cadre of other chiropractic college presidents in committing to an auto enrollment of students at Northwestern Health Sciences University in the APHA CHC Section. He has been president of Northwestern Health Sciences University since 2006 and previously was in private practice for 26 years and served as Mayor of Sturgis, South Dakota. He has served on the South Dakota Governor’s Health Care Task Force on Managed Care, the Governor’s Public Health Advisory Committee, and was appointed by the South Dakota Attorney General to the South Dakota Law Enforcement Standards and Training Commission. Dr. Zeigler also served as the South Dakota delegate to the American Chiropractic Association. He currently is serving as vice president of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges and serves on the board of the Minnesota Campus Compact and Foundation for Chiropractic Progress.
Bart Green, MSEd, DC
